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Re: [Xen-users] Provisioning SAN disk to domU's
 
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 > How do I go about giving a domU access to SAN?  Can we create SAN 
> bridges like we can Ethernet bridges, and then define a virtual HBA in 
> the domU?  Can we hide the real HBA from dom0 and present it to domU, 
> somehow?  Is it even possible to do what I am asking?  After days of 
> Googling and reading various documentation, plus reading hundreds of 
> possibly relevant emails in this list's archive, I have not found what 
> I am looking for.  I have more questions than answers. 
 
If you want all of the i/o fencing capabilities (etc) of GFS, you'll 
have to use the pciback/etc Xen stuff to give the HBA to the domU. 
However, simply for GFS to work, I believe all you'd need to do is pass 
the SAN LUN down to the domU via your Xen config (phy:/dev/sdX,...). 
GFS works based on the fact that it's a SCSI disk, not so much on the 
concept that it's "a SAN." 
 
(Disclaimer: I haven't actually done this, it's just what seems 
logical. :)) 
 
John 
 
 
 
 
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John Madden 
Sr. UNIX Systems Engineer 
Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana 
jmadden@xxxxxxxxxxx 
 
 
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